I voted for Harris because I wanted someone semi-sane and mostly sensible running things, but I understand why the battleground schmoes didn’t like her.
“A party of scolding, bullying, cancel culture…this is actually what fascism is.”
@mimzie2.0 Piers Morgan Says Democrats Should reevaluate themselves, before next election
It strikes me as vaguely odd that for the filming of Lolita (‘62), director Stanley Kubrick chose to build a sizable sound-stage set for a simple daylight scene in Shelley Winters’ suburban backyard.
This seems like an awful lot of trouble and expense for a boilerplate dialogue scene that might last 50 or 60 seconds.
It’s interesting, however, to discover stills of James Mason and Sue Lyon chatting in this backyard — presumably from a cut scene that follows the initial first-glance or “cherry pies” scene between Mason, Lyon and Winters.
But Rodney Dangerfield in shorts and open-toed whatevers (they’re not sandals)…no, man…just no…can’t unsee this either.
2005 Emmons Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11235 (shuttered now). Late ‘70s, maybe ‘80 or so, judging by the bell-bottoms.
The HE chorus has been repeating the same thing over and over…”ixnay on Gavin Newsom but goorah for Andy Beshear”…oh, yeah?
HE strongly suspects that a majority of the haters who saw red yesterday and went crazy toxic over a mild-mannered notion that Liam Neeson ought to take certain measures in order to look 63 again…
HE strongly suspects that many of these meltdown cases haven’t even caught one of Neeson’s finest films ever, 2024’s In The Land of Saints and Sinners, much less urged their friends to see it or talked it up on HE or whatever.
Some may have seen and admired it, I’m guessing, but the others need to wake the fook up.
In The Land of Saints and Sinners is “a Liam Neeson movie,” and we all know what that means. It means adherence to a certain slow-build formula.
Repeating for the record: To a steady and stalwart Neeson fellow who’s not looking for trouble and in fact would like to back off into a shelter or backwater of some kind, shit inevitably happens.
A slow burning, a gradually tightening situation, implications of tough terms, bad people up to bad stuff (including the threat of serious harm to a couple of innocent characters as well as to Neeson’s guy) until it all blows up in the end.
But the story, set in rural Ireland in the mid ’70s, pulls you in bit by bit, and the script has been carefully and compellingly written by Mark Michael McNally and Terry Loane.
In The Land of Saints and Sinners began shooting in Ireland (County Donegal, Dublin) in March ‘22. It premiered 18 months later at the 2023 Venice Film Festival. Netflix began streaming it on 4.26.24.
Liam Neeson turned 73 a few weeks ago, and that’s fine. What isn’t entirely fine is the fact the movie stars are expected to look ten years younger than their age, and Neeson — no offense, love the guy — looks 73, if not 75.
You know where this is going. Neeson needs to lose the neck wattle, clean up the eye lids and eye bags, brighten (and possibly enlarge) his teeth, etc. The usual usual. He basically needs to look 63 again…is that such a terrible thing? It’ll extend his career, for one thing.
If HE can submit to certain measures, Neeson can surely do the same.
On top of which he probably needs to invest in the latest and most effective…uhm, performance pills, given his much-commented-about relationship with the makeup-averse Pamela Anderson, 58, who’s apparently not much of a stayer when it comes to boyfriends. A bit volatile, I mean. Two years or less. Rumor has it that Neeson is hung like a horse, but a voice is telling me he’s too nice of a guy to hook up with a hair-trigger hellcat. Just ask Jon Peters.
Source: https://www.objectiffestival.fr/news/articles/82nd-venice-screenings-dates/index.php
Radical concept: James Bond re-imagined as a cerebral, borderline-dweeby, George Smiley smarty-pants type…fully capable of self-defense but no one’s idea of fiercely aggressive. And no seducing the broads.
“Don’t give up”? “You have the power”? “Let’s not be defeated”? “I don’t regret a day of it”?
That’s it?
That thin, chirpy, vocal-fry voice….that vaguely sassy-whiney tone…the reflexive cackling.
Variety and THR are reporting that Jeremy Strong will probably play Mark Zuckerberg in Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network, Part II. As I undersand the situation, Strong wouldn’t be “taking over” the role of Facebook founder from Jesse Eisenberg as much as succeeding Eisenberg. Original Social Network author Aaron Sorkin has written the sequel’s screenplay, and will direct as well.
Candance Owens’ Zoom interview with the imprisoned** Harvey Weinstein posted yesterday (7.30.25).
I’m kinda rushed and am saying nothing at this juncture. Give me time. I’m listening and taking notes as we speak.
